Silvana Micaela Ginocchio (born 10 October 1965) is an

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politician, currently serving as National Deputy representing

Catamarca Province Catamarca () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. The province had a population of 334,568 as per the , and covers an area of 102,602 km2. Its literacy rate is 95.5%. Neighbouring provinces are (clockwise, fr ...

. Ginocchio was first elected in

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for

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, and currently sits in the

Frente de Todos The Frente de Todos (translated as "Everyone's Front") is a coalition of Peronist and Kirchnerist political parties in Argentina formed to support President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Kirchner. Fernández won the 2019 gene ...

bloc.

Early and personal life

Ginocchio was born on 10 October 1965 in

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca () is the capital and largest city in Catamarca Province in Argentine Northwest, northwestern Argentina, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato. The city name is normally shortened as Catamarc ...

. She studied law at the

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, graduating in 1990. She is married to

Raúl Jalil Raúl Alejandro Jalil (born 25 August 1963) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who is currently governor of Catamarca Province, since 10 December 2019. Previously, from 2011 to 2019, he was ''intendente'' (mayor) of San Fernando del Va ...

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and former mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca; Jalil and Ginocchio have two children.

Political career

Ahead of the 2017 legislative election, Ginocchio was nominated as the second candidate in the Justicialist Front for Victory (

) list to the

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, behind Gustavo Saadi. The list received 47.84% of the votes, and both Saadi and Ginocchio were easily elected. Following the 2019 general election, Ginocchio became part of the

parliamentary bloc. As deputy, Ginocchio was a vocal opponent of the

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in Argentina, and voted against the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills that passed the Chamber, in 2018 and 2020. In 2020, In the 2020 debate, Ginocchio was the speaker for the anti-abortion faction of the Frente de Todos during the closing statements; she was one of 32 deputies out of 119 in the Frente de Todos to vote against the bill. Ahead of the 2021 primary election, Ginocchio was confirmed as one of the candidates for re-election in the Frente de Todos list in Catamarca.

References

External links

Profile on the official website of the Chamber of Deputies
(in Spanish) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ginocchio, Silvana Living people 1965 births People from Catamarca Province Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Catamarca Women members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies National University of Córdoba alumni 21st-century Argentine politicians 21st-century Argentine women politicians